Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deal of time has just been wasted on a new version of why the crucial letter was not delivered, and dramatic shots of Romeo's wild ride from Mantua. It is too bad that the weakest aspects of the adaptation cluster at the end of the movie, since they tend to sour what is on the whole a perceptive and tasteful...
Foreigners here tend to believe that the problems are all traceable to incompetence and shortsightedness within the Sastroamidjojo government. It is true that there is better political and ad ministrative talent outside, most of it belonging to the Socialists. But even if The Socialists have better brains, they seem no less infected with the same blinding anti-Western bias. Anti-Westernism runs, too, through the Masjumi (Moslem) Party, the country's largest, though both Moslems and Socialists are at least antiCommunist. Last week the Indonesian Minister of Information gave a small party for press attaches and foreign newsmen...
...releasing exact rank and course scores to prospective employers places undue emphasis on actually meaningless grade differences. "The difference between a high C and a low C may only be a few points," Glenn said, "but it represents several hundred places on the rank list. Since the law firms tend to emphasize class standing, a student is under constant pressure to improve his grades...
...cancellation of a 'B' or 'C' movie" and thereby give ammunition to those who think Catholicism has "adverse effects" on the U.S. Dr. John J. Kane, head of Notre Dame's sociology department, quoted some disturbing surveys. They show, he said, that U.S. Catholics tend to educate their children less well, are less successful in business than their Protestant and Jewish neighbors, and concentrate in fields that sacrifice prestige for security. A 1947 study of 10,063 high-school seniors found that 68% of the Jewish, 36% of the Protestant, and only...
...grown more expensive. Nonconformists eager to struggle along in attics are not much in evidence. Most writers like to live like people, and if they must be in attics, they want them air-conditioned. Half of all American writers make New York City their headquarters, and most of those tend to settle in the outer metropolitan fringe between the gentlemen's estates and small farms. Example: having sold his first novel, The Blackboard Jungle, to the Ladies' Home Journal (for $35,000), 27-year-old Evan Hunter is moving from a Hicksville, L.I. ranch house to eastern Westchester...